Snowman/Snowfort

Childish Funnies

1. Me: "Jack, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
Jack (my 3.5 year old): "A grown up."

2. I was out in the barn with Noelie (my 1.5 year old) and he points to a lump of horse manure and says in his sweet little voice, "Meatball". Made me laugh so hard :)

Arm Wrestling Rocks

Christ, it is so great to watch Over the Top again... I forgot how great Sly Stalone is as an actor and as a human being... I know that Jesus is alive in the world and in my life because we have Sly Stalone movies like Over the Top... Thank you Jesus, and Merry Christmas!

Platform Issue Details (DRAFT)

1. Technology/Innovation (Investment, facilitation, etc.)
1. Cash Infusion to Universities for Research
2. Specific Metrics for Monitoring Advancements
   
2. Environment
1. National Waste Disposal Standards
1. Recycling
2. Compost/Green Bin
3. Onus on corporations to deal with their own waste
2. National Energy Saving Plans
1. Corporate
2. Domestic
3. Green Energy Initative
4. Retiring 'old' methods of energy
5. Nuclear
   
3. National
   
3. Education
1. 
   
4. Fiscal Responsibility
1. Unless their is a national emergency the budget will ALWAYS be balanced
   
5. Open & Accepting Society
1. Outdated drug laws
2. Outdated view of marriage
   
6. National Identity
1. Internal initiatives
2. International initiatives
1. 0.7%
2. Peacekeeping (general realignment of the military to a Sys Admin/Diplomatic force) -- beef up new graduate program
3. Sound relationship with the United States of America
   

Key Platform Issues

1. Technology/Innovation (Investment, facilitation, etc.)
2. Environment
3. Education
4. Fiscal Responsibility
5. Open & Accepting Society
   
6. National Identity
   

Pollution

Dark red circles indicate oil spills and gray-shaded areasindicate sea pollution and land pollution from chemical fertilizers. Shown is only a small part of the entire pollution spectrum in 1988. At an average of every three months this globe becomes obsolete due to yet another major oil spill.

Dirty Joke

Worse than hate?

A friend of mine had a good point the other day that I think should be noted. The opposite of love is indifference. At first I thought 'no, no', it has to be hate, and I guess it is in some situations. But in a lot more cases it is indifference. And indifference is a lot worse than hate. I wish there were less indifference in the world, but that may be wishful thinking.

The State of Our Future

Jack said to me on Saturday that he didn’t need his umbrella (it was raining). He said he would wear his hat because it was an umbrella

Noelie’s vocabulary (14 months)

• Brown Bear
• Mama
• Jack
• Cracker
• Oh
• Uh-oh
• Book
• Girl
• Dog
• Bye… Bye… Bye
• Car… Car… Car… that’s Noel and I walking up our street

Others that I can’t think of…